Memory Ride and Candlelight Vigil to honor children who died from child abuse

Posted: March 20, 2012 - 9:27am | Updated: March 21, 2012 - 12:19am

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock, a nonprofit agency dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, will host its annual Memory Ride and Candlelight Vigil at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Mackenzie Park, 600 E. Broadway.

The event is to memorialize the Texas children who died from child abuse last year.

The ride will be police-escorted and will depart at 4:30 p.m. to Second Baptist Church, 6109 Chicago Ave. Memory ride participants and all community members are invited to dinner and a nondenominational candlelight vigil.